Difference between revisions of "The Godfather"

{{TB|In ''The Godfather'', {{W|Luca Brasi}} is killed and his body thrown into a canal. His killers later send a dead fish to {{W|Sonny Corleone}} along with a note reading "He sleeps with the fishes," which became a Mafia expression referring to someone being killed and their corpse being disposed of in a body of water.<br><br>The ''Godfather'' scene and the Mafia expression are referred to when [[Troy McClure]] goes into the DMV and is seen by [[Louie]] and [[Fat Tony]]. Louie says, "I thought you said Troy McClure was dead!" Tony replies, "No, what I said was: 'He sleeps with the fishes,'" and starts to explain, but Louie cuts him off: "Uh, Tony, please, no. I just ate a whole plate of dingamagoo." The dialogue between Tony and Louie is a sly bit of wordplay referring to the Mafia expression and to McClure's rumored fish fetish.}}

 

{{TB|The episode contains several references to the ''Godfather'' film series:<br><br>During the scene at the [[Springfield Mafia]] hideout, the setting, music, and mobsters are strongly reminiscent of the films.<br><br>When [[Fat Tony]]'s rat-milking operation is busted, [[Homer]] mockingly asks him, "What are you gonna do, call your Godfather?"<br><br>Homer kisses [[Mayor Quimby]], telling him that it's from Fat Tony, and Quimby realizes it's the kiss of death.<br><br>When [[Louie]] attacks Quimby, Homer comes to the defense by stabbing Louie's tie with a fork and pinning it to a table, a reference to the scene in ''The Godfather'' where Luca Brasi's hand is stabbed with a fork and pinned to a bar counter.}}

{{TB|[[Luigi]] says that when [[Homer]] gave his [[Luigi's|restaurant]] a bad review, he had a friend put a horse head in his bed to "encourage" him to quit being a food critic. Homer, however, missed the point, ate the head, and gave the head a bad review.}}

{{TB|In [[Apu]]'s wedding video, [[Homer]] sings the Neapolitan song ''C'è la luna mezzo mare'' along with the wedding band. In ''The Godfather'', an old man sings the same song during the wedding of Don Corleone's daughter.}}

{{TB|Moe tells [[Maggie]] the plot of the three ''Godfather'' films to entertain her. Moe imitates {{W|Don Corleone}} with a cut-up orange in his mouth, in reference to a similar scene in ''The Godfather''. He later imagines the exact scene from the film when he goes searching for Maggie. Moe seems to know the film by heart but mistakes [[Diane Keaton]]'s character Kay Adams with her character Annie Hall from [[Woody Allen]]'s film ''{{W|Annie Hall}}''. At the end of the episode, [[Fat Tony]] is emotional about Maggie and says: "I didn't cry so much since I paid to see ''Godfather III''."}}

{{TB|[[James Caan]], who played Sonny in ''The Godfather'', guest-stars in the episode as {{Ch|James Caan|himself}}. He has an affair with [[Brandine]], and in the final scene, he is ambushed and shot down by [[Cletus]], a reference to Sonny's death scene in ''The Godfather''.}}

{{TB|Fat Tony's son, [[Michael D'Amico]], is a reference to [[Michael Corleone]] from all three ''Godfather'' films. His physical looks and the fact that he is a quiet person who initially doesn't want to enter the mafia business are similar. In the same episode, mob goons try to assassinate Fat Tony through a window while flying in a helicopter, in reference to a similar scene in ''The Godfather Part III''. The final scene where Michael, [[Jimbo]], [[Dolph]], and [[Kearney]] close the door before Lisa references the final scenes of ''The Godfather''.}}

{{TB|When the [[FBI]] tell [[Homer]] they want to place him undercover in [[Fat Tony]]'s gang, Homer tries to protest that he can't because he was briefly Tony's consigliere. When he can't pronounce "consigliere" (after several attempts), he instead says "Robert Duvall," referencing {{W|Robert Duvall}}'s having played Tom Hagen the Consigliere in ''The Godfather''.}}

{{TB|[[Milhouse]] has a fantasy where in the future he has become a successful businessman ''a la'' [[Bill Gates]]. When [[Lisa]] compliments him on employing so many of their classmates, Milhouse cites [[Michael Corleone]]'s catchphrase, "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer."}}

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